Could be. If those are the am detector type clocks they will work. The ones I have do.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have four 15 year old Junghans Mega clocks through out the house. Ten > days ago I noticed one of them dead. Battery, and by the look of the > battery > dead at least a month. I inserted a new battery and it did set. I did not > watch it but today I went with one of them through the house and all are > exact within a second. Even advance the second as close as I am able to > observe. I am confident they synch daily. > Bert Kehren > > > In a message dated 6/13/2013 2:08:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Burt what you mention was indeed correct. But that non psk time was > stopped > about a month ago. > Its pure PSK now as far as I know > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Burt I. Weiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Paul, > > > > Thanks for the information. Late last night I did a search and found out > > about the "d-pskr-r" - an appropriate name, indeed. I gather there is no > > final design that says, "Here, build this and it'll work". I have a > malady > > that I suspect is common in this group; I hate to throw anything away > or > > convert it to a door stop. > > > > Supposedly, WWVB reverts back to the non-psk mode twice a day, at 12:00 > > Noon and again at 12:00 Midnight, each time for 30 minutes. Last night > my > > 8170 did not set. At my location the signal has been the most stable > during > > the day, so I'm going to watch it today at noon. I'll report my useless > > findings afterwards. If it were to set once every 24 hours I would > probably > > be happy as I'm not using it to time a network, just to hopefully be a > > little more accurate than my 30 year old kitchen clock. > > > > By the way... Earlier I mentioned that I have two 9150-52054 GPS units. > > Apparently my mind and fingers were not speaking to each other at that > > moment as I have should've typed, (DATUM) 9390-52054. Both of these run > > 24/7, use separate antennas and are on a UPS. I'm sure you've seen my > > various epistles in this group about them. Since I've changed out their > > power supplies and upgraded their crystal oscillators, they're most > happy. > > > > Burt, K6OQK > > www.biwa.cc > > > > > > > > Burt search time nuts its all there. Its not a kit by any means. > >> Spectracom did a very good job. To good, though in reality they simply > >> reused the phase tracking rcvr from other units. Essentially the system > >> locks to the stable carrier creating a local replica and then removes > the > >> carrier recovering just the AM. Or think of it as subtracting the > carrier > >> leaving just the data. Very good design very bad for PSK, since the > >> carrier > >> no longer has a relationship. > >> Nist and spectracom did put notices and such out for over a year, so > what > >> can you say. Though we all have lots of strong opinions actually. Don't > >> want > >> to start that thread again. > >> I have often thought and will spend no time doing it. Simply replace > the > >> demod with a diode detector. Now its not actually quite that easy. But > if > >> the only thing I had was a 8170 what the heck. The schematics of the > >> system > >> are available at spectracom. > >> > >> Near as I can tell the 8170 would run about 2 days on a fix. > >> > >> Off to seriously sleazzy land. You could always bugger a gps clock into > >> the > >> system adapting GPS time to local time by a micro. But that really is > >> ugly. > >> Though you end up with those nice clock digits working again. Hey when > you > >> do that send me the old rcvr parts. ;-) > >> > >> Regards > >> Paul. > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Burt I. Weiner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Paul, > >> > > >> > Ummmm... What a revolting development this is. My 9150-52054 have a > >> > smaller readout out that I can't see without climbing up on my bench, > >> > so I suppose I will no longer know what time it is. > >> > > > > Burt I. 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